Laurent Romary wrote:
> Hi James. I agree. It's a bit uneven... Please put in an SF entry!
SourceForge Feature Request added.
-James
>
> Le 7 juil. 09 à 16:33, James Cummings a écrit :
>
>> Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>>> James Cummings a écrit :
>>>> Not with note/@resp but with something like origDate/@resp, you can
>>>> have multiple pointers. Unlike with persName/@ref the Guideline
>>>> reference pages to seem to say what multiple pointers mean, but I
>>>> would have interpreted <date resp="#E1 #E2"> as that E1 and E2 are
>>>> both in some manner responsible for the determination of the element
>>>> content.
>>> Me too. If you want to say that the resp is _either_ E1 or E2, then I
>>> think we're in the territory of using <certainty/>, aren't we?
>>
>> That would certainly be one way to do it.
>>
>>> For the above use-case, however, I'd be in favour of standardizing
>>> @resp to allow multiple pointers more widely (maybe even universally).
>>
>> I certainly don't disagree. While I do agree with the others that the
>> current method is really to point to a personGrp or similar, I can't
>> think of good semantic reasons why: add, del, affiliation, birth,
>> death, event, gap, nationality, origPlace, persName, person, sex,
>> state, trait, etc. (random selection from att.editLike) allow a @resp
>> with multiple pointers and many other elements allow only a single one.
>>
>> Those that don't are:
>> att.interpLike [interp interpGrp span spanGrp]
>> att.textCritical [lem rdg rdgGrp]
>> handShift
>> note
>> respons
>> space
>> witDetail
>>
>> <gap/> allows multiple @resp values but <space/> does? So multiple
>> people can be responsible for excluding a bit of text but only one can
>> be responsible for noticing that there is a bit of extra space?
>>
>> -James
>> --
>> Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
>> James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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